repartvsrepostWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: repart is a verb, repost is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“repart” is a verb and “repost” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#9,379
“repart” frequency rank
#39,975
“repost” frequency rank
49354
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature repart repost
Definition Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de repartir. Caché.

Letter map: repart vs repost

Shared letters muted; letters that set repart and repost apart highlighted. Shared run: 4. repart and repost follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.

6 ch
repart
6 ch
repost

Role in the sentence - repart and repost

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: repart is averb and repostanadjective. On the page they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 49354, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

repart is recorded at frequency rank #9,379, classified as averb, pronounced \ʁə.paʁ\. repost is at rank #39,975, tagged as anadj.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 49354, this pair ranks #171,380 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of repart vs repost

Shared letters: eprt. Private to "repart": a. Private to "repost": os.

"repart" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC  ·  "repost" · 6 letters · shape CVCVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • reparterpart · reaprt · reparrt · repartt · repatr · reppart · reprat · rpeart
  • reposterpost · reopst · reposst · repostt · repots · reppost · repsot · rpeost

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "repart" and "repost" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "repart" is a verb and "repost" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary French text, does "repart" or "repost" show up more?
"repart" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #9,379 in our French list, against #39,975 for "repost". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

Pair "repart" vs "repost" is on the table, pick a follow-up below.

  • Full dictionary entry for "repart" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "repost" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #171,380 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "repart" and "repost" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "reposée vs repost". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #171,380 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list